“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” - Neuromancer

We read it in the FF book club ages ago, so if you are going to start it, check out our topics.

Oh I've already read it. Wonderful, if at times frustrating, book.

And I guess Skip's right about the line being dated... but that makes it no less fantastic to me.

While I'm here, I'm going to unload a few more from fantasy's most quotable woman:

“You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.”

“Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!”

"And stars don’t care what you wish, and magic don’t make things better, and no one doesn’t get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What’s real, what’s not real, and what’s the difference.”

>“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” - Neuromancer

Trouble with that one is, you gotta be old enough to remember CRT televisions. And the concept of a dead channel, which is pretty much nonsensical in a modern context.

Yeah, it's tough to write cyberpunk that ages well. I'm sure my own stuff will have tons of inaccuracies in ten years or so (one example - I never even though of adding the "moonwalking" shoes Google is creating for walking in VR, but they may end up being the go-to solution).

“Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'The Imass shrugged before replying.'I think of futility, Adjunct.''Do all Imass think about futility?''No. Few think at all.''Why is that?'The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her.'Because Adjunct, it is futile.”

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” - Neuromancer

That's one of my favorite lines as well but its effectiveness is dying. To grasp it, you need to know what a CRT television looked like when there was no signal coming in. Modern flat panels don't have that appearance. To a constantly increasingly portion of the reading audience, that line is meaningless.

**Ninja'd by Skip. Should have read the whole thread before responding.